Synonyms of the word

pit

• n. A hole in the ground.
• n. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
• n. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion…
• n. A mine.
• n. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance…
• n. (trading) A trading pit.
• n. (in the plural, with the, idiomatic, slang) Something particularly unpleasant.
• n. The bottom part of.
• n. (colloquial) Armpit.
• n. (aviation) A luggage hold.
• n. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
• n. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
• n. The grave, or underworld.
• n. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are…
• n. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the…
• n. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
• v. (transitive) To make pits in.
• v. To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
• v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs…
• n. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
• n. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
• n. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper…
• v. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
• n. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

area

• n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
• n. A particular geographic region.
• n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
• n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
• n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
• n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
• n. (slang) Genitals.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

cavity

• n. A hole or hollow depression.
• n. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
• n. (dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.

cavum

• n. (anatomy) A cavity.

colliery

• n. (Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
• n. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

concavity

• n. (uncountable) The state of being concave.
• n. (countable) A concave structure or surface.

confront

• v. (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to…
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To something bring face to face with.
• v. (transitive) To come up against; to encounter.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in confrontation.
• v. (transitive) To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
• v. (transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

deface

• v. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
• v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
• v. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

disfigure

• v. Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

endocarp

• n. (botany) The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed.

excavation

• n. (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…
• n. (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
• n. (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
• n. (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
• n. (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
• n. (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

face

• n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
• n. One's facial expression.
• n. The public image; outward appearance.
• n. The frontal aspect of something.
• n. (figuratively) Presence; sight; front.
• n. The directed force of something.
• n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
• n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
• n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
• n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces…
• n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
• n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
• n. (slang) The mouth.
• n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) Short for baby face. A wrestler whose on-ring persona is embodying heroic…
• n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
• n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
• n. (card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same…
• n. (heraldry) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
• n. (typography) A typeface.
• n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
• n. (computing) An interface.
• n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
• v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
• v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opponent.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
• v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
• v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
• v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
• v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception,…
• v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,…

fossa

• n. (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth.
• n. (geology) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet…
• n. A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox.

hole

• n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
• n. (heading) In games.
• n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
• n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
• n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
• n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
• n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
• n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
• v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
• v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
• v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
• v. simple past tense of hele.
• adj. Obsolete form of whole.

hollow

• n. A small valley between mountains.
• n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• n. (US) A sunken area.
• n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
• v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
• adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
• adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
• adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
• v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
• interj. Alternative form of hollo.

incurvation

• n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; a curving or bending; any instance of this.
• n. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
• n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
• n. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

oppose

• v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
• v. To object to.
• v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
• v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
• v. To compete with; to strive against.

perdition

• n. Eternal damnation.
• n. Hell.
• n. Absolute ruin.

pericarp

• n. (botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
• n. (rare, figuratively) The outer layer of any thing.

pitfall

• n. A potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
• n. A type of trap consisting of a concealed hole in the ground: victims fall into the hole and are unable…
• n. (computing) An anti-pattern.

pock

• n. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
• n. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar.
• v. To scar or mark with pits.

quarry

• n. A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
• v. (transitive) To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
• n. (uncountable) An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
• n. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds.
• n. An object of search or pursuit.
• v. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
• n. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, notably of glass or stone.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

scar

• n. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
• n. (by extension) A permanent effect on someone’s mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
• v. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
• v. (intransitive) To form a scar.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
• n. A cliff.
• n. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
• n. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.

stone

• n. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
• n. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
• n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
• n. (Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals,…
• n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp…
• n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
• n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon,…
• n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the…
• n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
• n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
• n. (obsolete) A testicle.
• n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange…
• v. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
• v. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive).
• v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when…
• adj. Constructed of stone.
• adj. Having the appearance of stone.
• adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• adj. (African American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
• adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
• adv. As a stone (used with following adjective).
• adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

trap

• n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
• n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
• n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
• n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
• n. The game of trapball itself.
• n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
• n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
• n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
• n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
• n. (slang) A person's mouth.
• n. (in the plural) Belongings.
• n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
• n. (sports) Trapshooting.
• n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
• n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
• n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
• n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
• n. A kind of movable stepladder.
• n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
• v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
• v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
• v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
• v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
• v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
• n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
• v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
• n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

workplace

• n. The place where someone works.